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Carbon monoxide poisoning can go unnoticed until its effects become very serious.
It is 1999, a 32-year-old man, his 36-year-old wife, their daughter and her classmate, both five and both rear seat passengers, are in the process of making a 250 mile trip between a their home and a popular hotel.
It is only a short time after they set off that they all start to complain of similar but, they believe, relatively benign symptoms: headaches and light-headedness. For the girls these are soon accompanied by chest pains and nausea.
Wondering if the symptoms mark the beginnings of food-poisoning from their cooked breakfast or perhaps the early signs of flu, they decide to carry on with their journey without interruption in the hope that they might reach their destination safe and sound where, "after a good night's sleep", they might wake feeling better.
Not once do they consider that they might be suffering from the symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning. It is only several days afterwards, during conversations with investigators, that the father would remark how recently he had felt frequently unwell while driving a sure sign of CO poisoning.
A short time later, with both girls unable to be stirred from sleep into consciousness and both parents feeling increasingly unwell, they drive to the nearest hospital.
Doctors there quickly diagnose CO poisoning as the cause of the girls' unconsciousness; after quick and careful medical intervention both are brought back to full health but, it is a very close call. Doctors say that had they been admitted any later, they could have suffered brain damage or even death.
Put simply, CO can't be tasted, smelled or seen. It is absorbed by the bloodstream more quickly than oxygen and can block oxygen from being absorbed by the blood cells. This intangibility of the threat is what makes it such a deadly killer: worldwide, thousands of people die from CO poisoning each year, including more than 50 each year in the UK.
One of the most common causes of CO-related vehicle deaths is a leaking exhaust this was the problem identified by investigators looking into the circumstances of the family who are the subject of our case study and it is essential that all motorists have their exhaust systems checked at least once every year.
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If you or a close family member has suffered from the CO poisoning, you'll know how difficult and sometimes devastating it can be.
All cases are preventable and where fatality or brain damage has occurred there is usually a liable party, whether it is a hotel, heater system fitter, gas worker, manufacturer or, like in the circumstances of the case study above, a mechanic who has failed to properly ensure the integrity of a vehicle's exhaust system.
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